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System hangs on some GUI windows #7000

@Luminisc

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@Luminisc

Describe the bug

I have fresh new Raspberry Pi 5, with freshly installed OS and all updates (firmware, OS, packages).
I installed Pi-Apps, and when I opening 'Games' category and scroll list of items for some time, whole system hangs, only hard reboot helps.

My issue is similar to #6872, but with exceptions:

  1. I have Pi-Apps
  2. System hangs not immediately, but only in specific scenario and application
  3. I had v3d errors only twice in around 10 tries
  4. Usually I have zero messages in dmesg -wk and journalctl -f when problem happens
  5. Even if I do dmesg | tee ~/dmesg.log (and same for journalctl) - no messages are written during problem.

I tried:

  • freshly installed OS - same problem
  • installed on 2 SD cards and 1 NVMe SSD - same

Original issue in Pi-Apps repo (there are some other details too): Botspot/pi-apps#2820

P.S. Same behavior when I managed to install Steam from Pi-Apps CLI (~/pi-apps/manage install Steam), but when I start Steam and it start to download update - system hangs like with Pi-Apps.

Steps to reproduce the behaviour

  1. Install and open Pi-Apps
  2. Open 'Games' category
  3. Scroll a bit (~ 5 seconds)
  4. System fully hangs, become totally unresponsive.

Device (s)

Raspberry Pi 5, 8GB

System

$ cat /etc/rpi-issue

Raspberry Pi reference 2025-05-13
Generated using pi-gen, https://github.com/RPi-Distro/pi-gen, 5dabc7dc940059dfbc46af5d97b60a1e812523dd, stage4

$ vcgencmd version

2025/05/08 15:13:17
Copyright (c) 2012 Broadcom
version 69471177 (release) (embedded)

$ uname -a

Linux rpi 6.12.34+rpt-rpi-v8 #1 SMP PREEMPT Debian 1:6.12.34-1+rpt1~bookworm (2025-06-26) aarch64 GNU/Linux

$ rpi-eeprom-update

BOOTLOADER: up to date
CURRENT: Thu 8 May 14:13:17 UTC 2025 (1746713597)
LATEST: Thu 8 May 14:13:17 UTC 2025 (1746713597)
RELEASE: default (/usr/lib/firmware/raspberrypi/bootloader-2712/default)
Use raspi-config to change the release.

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